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"Same Water" 2/17/17 demo. Lyrics & melody by Steffi Holmes, Tim Plimpton, Erin Kelsey, & Michael Natrin. Written and demoed in Dover, Delaware, for February Album Writing Month. Featuring Dell laptop fan noise in the background and Creature the tiny baby sleeping silently.

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Summer storm pounds on the roof above
A song of tin with a low constant drum
Take a step outside to feel the cool breeze
As water slides down shining wet leaves

Like a mother’s hum that puts me to sleep
Or a storm in the night to awaken the deep
It envelopes my being and invites me to sing
To be a part of the group, the ensemble of rain

If we all fall together, are we really apart?
Different sizes and shapes singing songs from the heart 
And we’ll watch the world turn like rain that never stops
Made of the same water, though we’re all different drops

I stand alone but surrounded
Voices all around me
Connected across time
Past and present entwined

Old book turned to a new page
Tells an ancient story with a different spin
The earth rotates; choose love or hate
We must make every new day count

 © 2017 Holmes Plimpton Magnin Natrin

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You would argue with the water
Argue with the sand and what it’s for
Stand where they meet
With foam on your feet
Try to deny the sea its own shore

You are starry-eyed and cynical
Angry as a catfish in a boat
Every word is barbed
Like rusted wire
Or blank as a deer in the road

Let me tell you what I think
Let me tell you what I think

You could reach it if you run
You could find it if you look
But you still don’t care whose dignity you take
I still call a crook, a crook

You swear that your ship’s not sinking
Throwing tantrums like jetsam out to sea
I see what’s for sale
And what’s for certain
Washing up to greet me

You’re etching your actions in the amber
Hollow fossils to outlive us all
So I will stack up my love 
Of what’s right and what we’re made of
And wait for your hate to fall

Let me tell you what I think
Let me tell you what I think

You could reach it if you run
You could find it if you look
But you still don’t care whose dignity you take
I still call a crook, a crook

I will reach it because I run
I will find it because I look
I will not give up my freedom 
Like it’s something that I took

I will not give up my freedom 
Like it’s something that I took

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Credits:
Crystal Hariu-Damore: vocals, guitar
Pete Damore: octave mandolin, vocals
Recorded & mixed by Clay Parker
Cover Art by Eric Van Nielsen

Let Me Tell You What I Think

Demo for February Album Writing Month!
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